The Park : Becoming a Body of Water
25 SEPTEMBER – 29 OCTOBER 2020

During Manifesta 13 Marseille, muséum d’histoire naturelle, located in Palais Longchamp, investigated the relationship between culture and nature, whilst celebrating the multiplicity of identities.

Inaugurated in 1869, Palais Longchamp was designed by the prominent architect Henri-Jacques Espérandieu, architect of Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde. Restored between 1990 and 2019, it was built to house the Muséum d’histoire naturelle and the musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille. The museums flank a fountain that was built to celebration the arrival of water of the Durance canal in Marseille in the second half on the 19^th century. The interior decorations of the palace were made by major artists of the time such as Barye and Puvis de Chavannes.

Muséum d’histoire naturelle covers an array of natural history disciplines and has a rich collection of botany, palaeontology, mineralogy and zoology. The historic and scientific collection holds more than 1 million specimens.

Participants: Center for Creative Ecologies* (Isabelle Carbonell, Hannah Meszaros Martin, T. J. Demos) (Collective, US), Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc (1977, GF),  Reena Spaulings.

Venue is not accessible to visitors with disabilities.